Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 110
The shabby doll now danced quite alone, and not very badly, after all.
Who acts: shabby doll · What happens: dance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shabby doll), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doll | det |
| 2 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 doll | amod |
| 3 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 danced | advmod |
| 5 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 alone | advmod |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 danced | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 badly | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 badly | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 badly | advmod |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 badly | advmod |
| 12 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 danced | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 badly | punct |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 danced | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | the shabby doll | after all; now | alone, badly property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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